NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS.

From the Conneaut Gazette of Nov. 13
Shipwreck and Loss of Life

Shipwreck and loss of Life - At an early hour this morning a hull of a vessel was seen off our harbor, and with the aid of a spy glass, one person was discovered on board; but as the Lake was rough, and the wind to the northward, it was impossible to go out to the vessel.  About 8 o'clock, however, when she had drifted within about thirty rods of the shore, one mile west of the Harbor, two or three individuals plunged into the Lake, and succeeded in getting on board, when a scene of horror and distress presented itself to their view.  The individual before discovered, proved to be the mate, by name Henry Waghorn.  He was unable to help himself much and seemed indifferent about getting on shore, and by his side, lashed to the windlass, were the lifeless bodies of two men, and in the cabin ten more of men, women and children.  The mate was put on shore, and soon after the lifeless bodies of four men, three boys, four girls, and one woman, were taken on shore, and decently interred, in the burying ground attached to the Presbyterian Meeting House.
     After the mate had become revived and able to converse we learned from him the following particulars relative to the accident.  The schooner is the Trader, of and from Otter Creek, Canada, loaded with lumber and bound for Cleveland, with a crew of four, including captain and mate, and ten passengers.  There was a widow lady and six children, name not known, and three gentlemen, one by name of John Richardson.  On Wednesday morning, when between Ashtabula and Grand River, about daylight, a squall struck the schooner, which split all the sails and rendered her unmanageable; and about 11 A.M. two heavy seas struck her in quick succession, which capsized her, and carried away both her masts and bowsprit, and stove a hole in her larboard bow.  At the moment she capsized, all on board were below.  In about five minutes she righted again, when the mate, two of the hands and one passenger (name not known, ) got upon deck, and all succeeded in lashing themselves to the windless, except the passenger, who was swept overboard.  The captain and remainder of the passengers did not attempt to come on deck, but remained in the cabin, about two-thirds filled with water, until they died, which was between 10 o'clock that night and day-light the next morning.  The groans and cries for help continued until about day-light.  The widow was bound for Cleveland, where she has a son residing.

A young man named Orrin Thomas, engineer on the new steamboat Cleaveland, was instantly killed on Monday evening, just as the boat was leaving Conneaut for Detroit.  While engaged in fixing some part of the machinery, his head came in contact with one of the ponderous cranks, by which it was crushed to pieces.  His age was only 18 years.

The Conneaut, Ohio, Gazette, will probably be relieved of its wonder at the course taken by the U. S. District Judge.  It was the only course by which he could detain these injured individuals in jail, to die by inches, or to be delivered over to their Spanish oppressors.  If not detained as criminals, they would have been within reach of a habeas corpus from the State courts.
Source: The Duluth News Tribune
Minnesota
Dec. 14, 1909
Gale on Erie Halts Search for Lost Men
No More Bodies on Car Ferry Victims Are Recovered Four of the Nine Victims.
According to Story Related in Pennsylvania City, Sister of One of Unfortunate Men Saw the Boat Sink While Dreaming Steamer Jesse Spaulding Safe.
ERIE, Pa., Dec. 13 - Four of the nine bodies picked by the Commodore Perry yesterday the first of the remains found of the 38 men who lost their lives when the car ferry Bessemer & Marquette No. 2, foundered on the angry billows of Lake Erie were sent to their homes tonight. The bodies shipped are those of William Ray to Butler, Pa; Thomas Steele to Conneaut, Ohio; George R. Smith to Conneaut, Ohio.
The body believed to be that of J. O'Hagan of London, Ont., was identified as that of Rhines of Port Stanley, Ont.
The Commadore Perry which did such heroic work in bringing the bodies in Sunday afternoon, lay in her slip all day with team up, but the gale that swept over the entire lake region was of such a nature that to venture upon the waters of the lake would have been suicidal. The wind subsided tonight.
According to a story related here, Sarah Clancy, a sister of one of the missing men, saw the car ferry sink while dreaming Tuesday night and since that time she has insisted that her brother is dead and all with him were lost.
Rumor Proves to Be False.
A report was received here this afternoon that another yawl boat had been signed near Westfield, N. Y. This rumor proved false. The south wind which has been blowing all day, would have washed all wreckage and bodies towards the Canadian shore and lake men expect that the next discovery will be made on the other side of the lake.
Following is a corrected list of the men still missing not including all of the passengers: R. R. McLeod, captain, Conneaut; J. C. McLeod, first mate, Courtwright, Ont.; Frank Stone, second mate, Coneaut; Eugene Wood, chief engineer, Conneaut; E. Buckler, first assistant, Conneaut; T. Kennedy, second engineer, Conneaut; W. Wiglesworth, fireman, Conneaut; W. Wilson, Wheeslman, Conneaut; Fred Walker, unknown; Watchman F. Annis, Conneaut; J. Clancy, Cleveland; J. Wirtz, oiler, Detroit; G. Lawrence, cook, Port Stanley; coal passers P. Keith, Conneaut; J. King, Port Stanley; J. Bailey, Canada; F. Barrett, seaman, Wisconsin; E. Harvey, seaman, unknown; P. Hughes, seaman, Conneaut; D. Ball, seaman, unknown; Charles Kreitts, seaman, unknown; Albert J. Weis, passenger, Erie; Christ Johnson, passenger, Erie.
From the Conneaut Gazette.
     The most wonderful part of the whole matter, is the fact that Judge Judson, of the United States District Court, could see any thing in this worthy of holding these men to bail.  In killing the crew or taking whatever life was necessary for the purpose of freeing themselves, was not only one of the clearest dictates of nature, but it was unquestionably in strict conformity with every human code, that is considered of binding validity here, or among nations, and in addition to this, they were most clearly justified by the most enlightened and refined rules of moral conduct.  Can it be possible that at this day a man, merely because it he is from Africa, has no right to the exercise of self-defence?  Must he not only be subject to his master when once rendered to servitude, but must be privilege of defending himself from his captors during the process be denied him?  God forbid.  This dread of southern displeasure will, if allowed to prevail, yet lead, we verily believe to the declaration of war by this government against the African princes, if they refuse to deliver up their people to the demands of Spanish or American rapacity.  - Just reverse the picture, make the crew black and the captives white.  Think ye, they would be called "a ruthless gang of African buccaneers"?  Oh!  Indeed the word African has all the charm.  We say again, these have committed no crime against the law of nations, the least violation of the law of God, or any act which an enlightened conscience will not fully approve.  Thanks to the Providence that directed them to a northern port, where they are to be tried by a northern jury.

The schooner Commercial of Conneaut, with 250 bbls of salat on board, was run into and sunk by the Great Western on Monday night, on Lake Erie - Alb. Dai. Adv.

The Bridge over the Conneaut Creek, in Ohio, recently fell, just as the Cleveland stage had passed it, and while the hind wheels were on it.  The driver was thrown off, but the horses had a firm footing upon the bank, and sustained themselves.  The bridge was twenty feet above the bed of this deep creek.

Samuel P. Fenton has been appointed Postmaster at Conneaut, Ohio, vice Judge Dart, deceased.

    We had the pleasure of taking by the hand on Monday, our old friend ALLEN, of the firm of Allen & Rollo, publishers of the Conneaut Reporter, a sterling Whig Journal in the "Western Reserve."  He was on a cruise up the Lakes in the fine brig L. A. Blossom.

     The Brig LADY A. BLOSSOM of Conneaut, Capt. J. L. Wood, came into our port Sunday morning with a large load of freght, - 16 cabin passengers and 40 stearage.
     This fine brig, of which Messrs. Lake and Carpenter of Conneaut are principal owners, was launched at that place last April.  She measures 300 tonage - 24 feet 9 inches beam and 9 feet 1 inches of hold.

FIRE AT CONNEAUT - The town of Conneaut was visited by a severe fire on Monday night.  It broke out in the large store and warehouse of Charles Hall, Arcade buildings, which was destroyed.  The lower rooms were occupied by Mr. Hall as a Dry Goods store, and the upper story by Odd Fellows and Sons of Temperance.  The building was insured for $1200 in the Portage Mutual and Mr. Hall had an insurance on his goods in the AEtna for $5000.  Goods mostly saved in a damaged state.  The furniture and regalia of the Odd Fellows insured for $200 which mainly covers the loss.  The Sons saved theirs - Cleveland Her.

Destructive Tornado.
A tornado passed over a part of Ashtabula County, Ohio, eight or ten days ago, which did immense damage to crops, fences, trees, &c.  It came from the lake, and struck the shore not farm from Conneaut.  Its course first was nearly south, and after demolishing fences, acres of woodland, growing crops, &c., it suddenly turned North, and when again near the shore of the lake took an easterly direction, pouring upon the earth a perfect torrent of water accompanied with hail.  Everything within its range was leveled with the ground for two or three miles.  East of Conneaut it continued about ten miles, laying completely desolate a strip of country a mile wide.  Large sound forest trees, two and three feet through, were twisted off and carried several rods.  Some farmers lost all their crops by it, and suffered much in their improvements.  The aggregate destruction is stated by the Conneaut Reporter to be very great.

Source: Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph
Dated: Mar. 27, 1850

DIED:
     (Death of Capt. John Edmonds - We learned that Capt. Edmonds, master of the steamer Southern died at Buffalo on Sun. morning, Capt. E. was a resident of Monroe.  We understand his disease was cholera morbus, strongly resembling the cholera of last season.

DIED:
     At Conneaut, on the 2d. inst. of consumption, Capt. J. L. Wood, aged 35.

DIED: In Bristol, Vt. Mar. 24th, of Lung Fever, Capt. David Kellogg, a resident of Monroe, in this county aged 84 yrs.

DIED:
In Monroe, on the 15th inst. Mrs. Anna Kellogg, wife of Martin Kellogg, Esq. in 71st year of her age.

DIED:  In Williamsfield, N. Y. on the 20th inst. Leonard STEVER, aged 91 yrs. father of J. G. STEVER of this place, a soldier of the Revolution.

CONNEAUT, OHIO - By the recent census, it appears that hte population of this town is 2813.  Increase 300 since 1840.

Another link in the Lake Shore Railroad has been completed.  The cars ran from Ashtabula to Conneaut for the first time on Saturday week.  There are now only about thirty miles from Erie west to be completed.

Conneaut P. O., Ashtabula co., Ohio, Dec. 2, 1852.  There never has been a time since the Era started that subscribers could be obtained as easy as they can be at the present time.  Now is the time for Anti-Slavery men to work.  I mean that you shall hear from me again with another club before long.

Weston failed a third time on his hundred mile feat, Saturday, and stopped for the night at Conneaut, O., thoroughly exhausted and with his feet badly swollen.  He made the first 58 miles in 13 hours and 10 minutes, and the hopes then were strong that he would succeed.  He has one more trial.

Accident to a Jamestown Lady in Conneaut, O. -
     Mr. O. E. Jones, who was on Monday hastily summoned to Conneaut, O., by a telegram announcing that his sister, Mrs. Sarah Hall, had been severely hurt, reports that the accident was caused by a fractious horse.  The following are the particulars of it.  Mrs. H. was going to church and a gentleman called for her with a horse and carriage.  After she had got into the buggy and before the gentleman had taken his seat the horse, which was a spirited one, gave a jump.  The driver was thrown against a fence and fell to the ground, the reins being drawn from his hands.  The horse ran some distance and in crossing a sluice Mrs. Hall was thrown out.  Unfortunately her skirs caught in the steps and she was thus dragged head downwards for some distance.  Her clothing gave way finally and she was left insensible on the road.  Her injuries consist of a dislocation of the hip, some of her teeth knocked out and severe bruises and wounds about the head and body.  When Mr. Jones left her she was comfortable and hopes were entertained of her recovery.  We hope they may be realized as Mrs. Hall would be sadly missed in Jamestown.  She is one of the best teachers in our school and socially has hosts of friends.  May her recovery be speedy and complete, will be the wish of all.  She of course remains with the friends whom she was visiting in Conneaut.

It is generally considered in Conneaut that John Sisson, aged eleven, has a hard skull; because one of the hind wheels of a 8,050 pound wagon ran over his head and merely chafed the skin.

DIED:
     In Conneaut, Jan. 30, 1877, Earnest, only son of Isaac and Hanna M. Van Gorder, aged 9 yrs.

Nathan Daugherty, an Ashtabula lad, was killed at Conneaut, by falling between car platforms.

Conneaut is Calm
CONNEAUT, O., July 16.  The militia broke camp yesterday afternoon and went home to Geneva.  All signs of trouble are over.

Evidence of Murder is Found.
Mrs. McClellan Was Probably Beaten to Death at Conneaut, Ohio.
     Cleveland, Ohio, June 2. - Mrs. Elanor McClellan was found dead on the lake shore at Conneaut, Ohio last Sunday morning, and it is now believed that she was murdered.  Mrs. McClellan, who was about 50 years old, was formerly a school teacher at some place in New York, but had been employed as a domestic in this city for some time.  She disappeared a few days ago.  Before her body was found at Conneaut she told several persons with whom she came in contact that she had run away from Cleveland to escape her divorced husband.  She had evidently been struck on the head with some blunt instrument.  The coroner today decided that she had come to her death at the hands of an unknown person.  The police are trying to find a clew to the murderer.

A Cyclone in Conneaut, O.
     CONNEAUT, O., Oct. 27 - At 6:30 o'clock last evening a cylone swept over the town, destroying about thirty houses.  The large butter-tub factory owned by C. J. Record is badly wrecked, thousands of dollars' worth of stock, being completely destroyed.  Record's loss is about $50,000.  The plaining mill of H. E. Pond, adjoining Record's, is greatly damaged.  His lumber yard is strewn all over the town and two smoke stacks are blown down.  Many fine residences suffered heavily, roofs being torn off and windows broken.  Two telegraph poles were blown through the roof of the Lake Shore depot, and the baggage room was completely destroyed.  The total loss is $100,000.

COMMISSIONS FOR GUARD OFFICERS
 A BATCH THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN OUT DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE.

THE CONNEAUT CAMP
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It has to Be Named After the Late Commander of the Fourteenth Infantry.
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Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart announces for Governor Hastings the following appointments on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief.
     Corporal Hugh Murray, Ninth Regiment Infantry, Wilkesbarre, to be Sergeant Major.
     William T. Simpson, Scranton, to be Commissary Sergeant, vice William H. Burke, honorably discharged.
     Commissions have been issued during June for the following officers:
     First Brigade - Major David S. B. Chew, Brigade Quartermaster, with rank from June 9, 1897, vice Beverly Randolph Keim, resigned.
     BATTERY C. - Second Lieutenant Bethel M. Krohn, Quartermaster, with rank from June 17, 1897, vice Henry H. Quimby, resigned.
     STATE FENCIBLES BATTALION INFANTRY - Second Lieutenant William T. Burton, Company C. with rank from April 29, 1897, vice Charles F. Lumb, to Adjutant.
     FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY - Captain Clarence H. Staley, Campany A. with rank from June 11, 1897, vice Winfield L. Margerum, resigned.
     First Lieutenant William C. Knox, Company A., with rank from June 11, 1897, vice Clarence H. Staley, to captain.
     First Lieutenant Charles C. Allen, Company C. with rank from May 13, 1897, vice George E. Phillips, resigned.
     Second Lieutenant Augustus D. Whitney, Company C. with rank from May 13, 1897, vice Charles C. Allen, to first lieutenant.
     Third Regiment Infantry - Second Lieutenant Henry D. Reiss, Company B, with rank from June 21, 1897, vice Gustav Schlachter, resigned.
     Second Lieutenant Oliver Hough, Company G. with rank from June 10, 1897, vice George A. Avery, resigned.
     Fourth Regiment Infantry - Second Lieutenant Edward E. Machamer, Company A, with rank from May 10, 1897, vice John R. McKnight, resigned.
     Fifth Regiment Infantry - Captain William M. MAhan, Company F., with rank from May 15, 1897, vice David W. Simpson, resigned.
     First Lieutenant Samuel H. Hughes, Company F, with rank from May 15, 1897, vice William M. Mahan, to captain.
     Second Lieutenant William F. Elkin, Company F, with rank from May 16, 1897, vice Samuel H. Hughes, to first lieutenant.
     Sixth Regiment Infantry - Canptain Gibbons Gray Cornwall, Company I, with rank from May 11, 1897, vice Sharpless M. Paxson, resigned.
     First Lieutenant Granville S. Bennett, Company I with rank from May 11, 1897, vice St. Julian Ogier, resigned.
     Second Lieutenant Herman J. Smith, Company I, with rank from May 11, 1897, vice Granville S. Bennett, to first lieutenant.
     Brigade orders for the Conneaut Lake camp were received in Pittsburg Wednesday.  The camp will be known as Camp Joseph H. Gray, after the former commander of the Fourteenth Infantry, who died on the train on the way to New York to attend the Grant Monument exercises some weeks ago.  The routine of the camp will be as follows: Morning gun, 6 o'clock; reveille, 6:05; police call, 6:30; breakfast, 7; surgeon's call, 7:30; guard mounting, 8:30; dinner, 12; supper, 7; tattoo, 9:30; taps, 10.45.
     In the order it is stated that "Colonels and captains have no power to excuse any one, and a failure to secure the proper permission for absence may result seriously.  It must not be understood that the brigade cammander has unlimited power to grant leaves and furloughs, but can only do so for reasons which would be sufficient in actual service in the field.  Mere personal or business inconvenience cannot be accepted as a ground for excuse.  It is the desire of the general sommanding that this be made the best and most successful encampment we have had, and to that end the absolute and constant attention of all is invoked.  Bathing in the lake must be before 7 a.m. and after 8 p.m. and must be in proper costume.  Target practice will be discontinued during the time of camp.  The postoffice of the camp will be Conneaut Lake, Pa."
     Colonel N. M. Smith, Eighteenth Infantry, went to Greensburg Thursday to confer with Brigade Quartermaster E. E. Robbins in regard to the movement of his regiment.  Major Robbins wanted the regiment to leave at noon Thursday next.  This would put the boys in to Conneaaut at night, and in case it should be raining on their arrival they would have to lie out all night.  As no detail will be sent ahead to erect tents, Colonel Smith wanted to arrive in camp during the day, and suggested that his regiment leave Pittsburg at night.  The object in not sending details to erect tents is to allow every man to learn how to erect his own tent.  Colonel Smith thinks this is something every Guardsman should know.
     The camp orders for the Fourteenth Infantry were issued Thursday.  The regiment will leave Pittsburg Friday morning at 7.30.  Captain A. T. Easton will have command of the detail that will leave Wednesday to erect the tents and put the camp ground in readiness.  Captain J. F. McLain has been detailed as Officer of the Day July 16, and Lieutenant E. E. Fulmer, Company C, as Officer of the Guard.
     A meeting of the officers of the Fourteenth Regiment was held Monday evening and some action taken in the fight between the regiment and Captain T. J. Keenan, of the brigade staff, who is now in Norway.
     A meeting of the Eighteenth Regiment Line Officers' Mess Association was held Thursday evening.  Captain Charles H. Roessing was elected president; Lieutenant Detmer Straub, secretary, and Lieutenant George Ward, superintendent.
     The bitter feeling between resident of Homestead and the Guard cropped out again this week when members of the Fourteenth, who had been working at the rifle range across the Monongahela River from Homestead, went to that town for provisions.  They drove across in a wagon, which was attacked by a mob of toughs.  Privates Stocke and Ray were pulled from the wagon and kicked insensible.  The toughs then fled.  The next detail that visits Homestead will give the toughs of that town some excitement if they were attacked.
     Some of the members of the Guard in Pittsburg fear the coal miners' strike may interfere with the movement of the brigade by the railroad at the break of camp.

GOV. STONE TALKS TO CROWDS AT CONNEAUT
It was the Greatest Republican Demonstration Ever Held in Northern Ohio.

Special to the Inquirer.
     ASHTABULA, Ohio, Oct. 31.  Tonight in Conneaut, Carnegie's Great Lake port, Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, delivered an address at one of the greatest Republican demonstrations ever held, in Northern Ohio.  The city was profusely decorated with flags and bunting.  The parade was nearly a mile in length.
     A feature of the parade was the marching of the laborers employed on Carnegie's docks.  The Hungarians, Italians and Fins formed in separate companies, under different banners.  The line of march included Conneaut Harbor, two miles from the city, where are located the extensive ore and coal docks.  The total number of foreigners in the parade was about 700.  Nearly 200 foreigners were in attendance from Ashtabula.  The foreigners from here were from Mark Hanna's docks.
     Special trains were run a distance of twenty-five miles.  Geneva, Jefferson, Saybrook, and Kingsdale sent large representations.  Nearly every outside town in the county to the west sent a brass band.  Governor Stone was given a rousing reception.

A BRIDGE COLLAPSES.
ON THE NICKEL PLATE ROAD WITH THREE HEAVY LADEN CARS.
WITH AN AWFUL CRASH AND WITHOUT WARNING.

ON THE HELPLESS WORKMEN ENGAGED IN MAKING REPAIRS BELOW - ELEVEN KILLED AND TEN SERIOUSLY INJURED - THE LIST OF DEAD.
Conneaut, O., July 11 - Just after 10 o'clock today three cars of the east end local freight went through the Nickel Plat bridge at Springfield, PA.  The train left Conneaut only a few minutes before the accident in charge of Engineer Wm. Griffith of Buffalo and Conductor Phil A. Moore of Buffalo.  The latter was killed outright.  The bridge crew was at work on the bridge and the 11 men killed and 10 men injured are mostly working men.  A fill was being made at the bridge and about 25 workmen were about the structure.  The Conneaut wrecking train with local officials and doctors left for the scene at 11 o'clock.
     The horrible affair occurred just after passenger train NO. 3 had pulled through.  The local, after the passing of the passenger train, pushed three cars heavily laden out on the structure to unload stone for the masons working beneath on the large stone abutments.  The unloading had hardly been begun when without warning the whole structure bearing the three laden cars filled with laborers fell with an awful crash into the valley.  So sudden was the affair that only one man, a mason named George Smith, had a chance to leap in time to save himself from injury.  The list of dead include:
     Conductor Phil A. Moore, Conneaut.
     J. Zaboss, workingman, Cleveland
     George Swartz, workman, Springfield.
     Homer Beckwith, foreman, Conneaut
     Five Italians, names as yet unknown.
     Randall West, Springfield.
     The men as the train fell had all leaped as far as possible so that only two or three were buried beneath the awful mass of debris at the bottom of the ravine.  These were easily pulled out and carried to the top of the hill and placed on the lawn awaiting the arrival of medical assistance, which came promptly.  As soon as news of the accident reached Conneaut, a wrecking train and a hurriedly constructed ambulance train were dispatched to the scene.  The wounded were first attended to.  They were placed in cots and all were brought to Conneaut with the exception of the men named Randall, Beckwith and Swartz, who were taken in charge of by their parents at Conneaut.  The living were conveyed to the hospital.  The remains of the dead were transferred to the morgue to await identification.

LOFTY RAILWAY BRIDGE CRASHES DOWN WITH CARS
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE NEAR SPRINGFIELD, PENN
CAUSED BY FALL OF STRUCTURE ON WHICH THREE HEAVILY LADEN CARS WERE STANDING.
Men Working Below buried in debris
Cleveland, O., July 11 - Just after 10 o'clock today three cars of the east end local freight went through the Nickel Plate bridge at Springfield, Pa. 
     The train left Conneaut only a few minutes before the accident, in charge of Engineer William Griffith  of Buffalo and Conductor Phil A. Moore of Buffalo.  The latter was killed outright.  The bridge gang was at work on the bridge and the 10 men injured are mostly workmen.
     A fill was being made at the bridge and about 25 workmen were about the structure.
     The horrible affair occurred just after passenger train No. 3 had passed, pushed three cars heavily laden on to the structure to unload stone for the masons working beneath on the large stone foundations.  The work of unloading had hardly begun, when, without any warning, the whole structure bearing the laden cars, filled with laborers, fell into the valley.  So sudden was the accident that only one man, a mason named George Smith, had a chance to lean in time to save himself from death.
     The dead:
     Homer Beckwith, foreman, Conneaut
     Phil A. Moore, conductor, Conneaut
     George Swartz, laborer, North Springfield, Pa.
     John Cenos, laborer, Cleveland
     Carl Randall, West Springfield
     Five Italian laborers, names unknown.
     The injured: -
     J. J. McDermott, a brakeman, Ashtabula, jaw broken, badly bruised.
     Five Italian laborers, names unknown
     The place where the accident occurred was at Crooked Creek, directly north of East Sprinfield, Pa.
     For many years the creek has been spanned by a heavy structural steel bridge.  On May 1 the work of filling up the valley was commenced.  Down in the ravine 55 feet below, masons were at work building a large stone abutment.
     The wreck presented a terrible appearance.  The steel was wrenched and distorted into one huge mass.  The three cars containing stone were broken to bits and the railway track was obliterated in the pile.
     The cause of the wreck can be laid only to accident.  For a long time all the trains have been required to reduce their speed to four miles an hour in passing over the bridge.  The railroad men regard it as little less than miraculous that the structure withstood the strain of heavy laden passenger train No. 3, which passed over it a short time before, and then fell with three loaded cars standing upon it.
     Conductor Moore was on one of the cars while the crew of workmen was waiting underneath to level off the stone as it was dumped off.  Without a word of warning the bridge gave way.  The three cars with their heavy loads were buried into the gulley a distance of about 80 feet.
     Into the very midst of the workmen the train tumbled and many were crushed.
     Special trainsfrom Conneaut and Erie carried physicians to the scene of the accident.  The work of recovering the dead and rescuing the injured, was difficult, as they were buried under the heavy cars.  It appears from later reports from the scene of the accident that the engine did not go down with the wrecked bridge.  Only the cars heavy loaded with stone, were carried down.  It was at first reported that engineer Griffith had been killed but this now seems to have been erroneous.

OHIO TOWN BURNED OUT.
CONNEAUT, O., Feb. 25 - Fire today practically wiped out the business portion of Conneaut Harbor.  The loss is $100,000.

BANK OFFICIALS EXPLAIN
President and Cashier of Conneaut Institution Declare their Innocence.

CONNEAUT, Ohio - Dec. 13 - President Traver and Cashier Lillie of the defunct Conneaut First National Bank, who were arrested and taken to Cleveland last night on the charge of violating the national bank laws, have returned here after giving bond for their appearance before the Federal Court.  Both men declare that they will be able to prove their innocence.
     According to the statement of the officials the wrongful entry made by Cashier Lillie, showing the bills receivable to be $10,000 less than they were, was made for the purpose of covering up a deficit of years standing, before Lillie had any connection with the bank.  The entry was made, it is claimed, to avoid trouble for the bank.
     Travers' act on which the charge of embezzlement is based, consisted of renewing a note for $5000 held against him by the bank.  As president he extended the time on the note which recently became due.

SUICIDE'S BODY FOUND
Washed ashore at Conneaut Harbor after Lapse of Ten Weeks.
GREENVILLE, Pa., Sept. 30. - After having been in the water for over ten weeks, the body of Chambers Tunnison, of this city, who jumped overboard from the Lake Erie Steamer St. Ignace in mid-lake between Cleveland and Detroit on the night of July 16, was washed ashore at the Conneaut harbor today.  Tunnison left his family without giving any inkling of his intention.  He was reported to have leaped from the steamer when his cap was found on the water.

Killed by Falling Timbers.
     Conneaut, O., July 24 - Two men were killed and five seriously injured by the falling of scaffolding upon some work at the Pittsburg and Conneaut dock today.
     The dead are:  A. Matson and B. Huick  of Cleveland, constructural iron workers.

NINE MEN IN YAWL FROZEN TO DEATH
THIRTY-TWO BELIEVED LOST WITH FOUNDERING OF CAR FERRY ON LAKE ERIE
RESCUE COMES TOO LATE
Suite of Clothes Found in Bow Indicates Tragedy That Can Be Only Guessed - Single Overcoat All-Insufficient.

ERIE, Pa.  Dec. 12 - With her flag at half-mast the state fisheries boat, Commodore Perry, Captain Gerry Driscoll, commanding, brought to this port late today the dead bodies of nine of the crew of the Bessemer & Marquette ferry No. 2, which left Conneaut, Ohio, Tuesday morning carrying 32 men.  The ferry has probably foundered in the middle of Lake Erie.
     For 48 hours the Commodore Perry has been scouring Lake Erie for traces of the car ferry, but, until the tiny yawl was sighted 15 miles off this port at 11 o'clock today, the men in the little state fisheries craft had almost given up hope of being able ever to hear even a portion of the story of the fate of the big car ferry.

MEN FROZEN IN BOAT.
     As the Perry came abreast of the drifting and half-water-logged yawl the men on the fishboat saw that they had arrived too late.  The nine occupants of the boat, which was marked "Bessemer & Marquette NO. 4," were frozen stiff.  Taking the yawl in tow, the Perry made all team for this port.
     News of the finding of the bodies had reached the city and thousands of persons swarmed the wharves.  As soon as the fishboat made fast a force of men with tackle set to work raising the bodies to the dock. 
     Conneaut, Ohio, where all but one of the dead men had lived, was notified and relatives and friends came to this city.  They were taken directly to the morgue, where the men were identified as follows:  Thomas, second cook, Port Stanley; William Ray; J. W. Sours, waiter; G. R. Smith, steward; J. Hart, oiler and Charles Allen.
All except Thomas lived in Conneaut.

One Overcoat Among Nine.
     The cook of the car ferry was the only man to wear an overcoat.  The others were dressed in overalls and jumpers, indicating that departure from the car ferry had been hurried.  In the bow of the boat was found complete clothing for one man, and it is believed that the yawl originally contained ten men, and that one became crazed, discarded his clothing and jumped into the lake.
     Albert J. Weis, of this city, treasurer of the Keystone Fish Company and the Bay State Iron Works, was a passenger on the ferry.  His relatives and friends had not given up hope until the yawl containing the nine men was towed into port.  His body has not yet been found.
     Officers of the car ferry company gave up all hope Saturday, and since Thursday every available tug has been searching the lake for news of the wrecked craft.

Believed Lost Last Tuesday
     The ferry was of steel with a capacity of 34 loaded cars.  Last Tuesday morning, with 32 cars of coal aboard and carrying 32 persons, including passengers and crew, she left Conneaut.
     In the terrific storm that followed, in which at least 52 lives were lost on the lakes, the ferry foundered.  It is supposed that the tossing of the ferry in the sea troughs displaced the coal cars and that they pitched through the sides, admitting water to the hold.  It is supposed the vessel went down about Tuesday noon, sinking midway between Conneaut and Port Stanley.

WESTON REACHES CONNEAUT
(By Associated Press)
ASHTABULA, Ohio, April 14 - Edward Payson Weston, tramping, passed through here this evening.  Word came at 9 o'clock that he had reached Conneaut and would spend the night there.   Weston covered fifty miles today.

Weston Now in Pennsylvania
     (Associated Press by Leased Wire.)
     Conneaut, Ohio, April 15. - Edward Payson Weston, left here at 5 o'clock this morning and in a few minutes crossed the Ohio state line and entered Pennsylvania.  He hopes to reach Northwest, Pa., tonight, a distance of sixty-one miles.

Source: Duluth News-Tribune - Minnesota
Dated: Aug. 25, 1911
BREAKWATERS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AT CONNEAUT
     CONNEAUT, Aug. 24 - The Gillen Dock, Dredge and Construction company completed the work on the new breakwater today.  It is not known when the contract will be let by the government o when the work will start on the addition to the west breakwater.
     It is thought that August will be the banner month of the season in regard to ore receipts at the local harbor.  At the present time they are within a few thousand tons of the million ton mark.
     The steamer Gratwick cleared today for Fort William with cement.  The steamer Chilli will sail tomorrow for the same place, the vessels carrying 17,000 barrels of cement.

Will Allow Boy to Retrace Steps Conneaut Police Wire for Information and Are Told to Free 15 Year Old Joe Brown.
     Joseph Brown, a 15-year-old Superior boy, was detained by the police of Conneaut, Ohio, pending word from the police of Superior as to what disposition to make of the boy.
     In reply to a telegram received by Chief of Police McKinnon from Chief of Police Randall of the Ohio city asking for information concerning the runaway the latter wired in effect as follows:
     "Turn him loose and let him see if he can find his way home."
     Brown is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Brown of 5529 Sylvia avenue, Superior.  He has been missing from home sine last February, and on being apprehended by the police of Conneaut stated that he desired to return to Superior but that he had no funds with which to pay his fare.
     Chief McKinnon, before replying to the Conneaut police, communicated with the boy's father and ascertained that the elder Brown was not worrying about the disappearance of his son.
     "He's having his fling," said Brown senior.  "To make his way home on his own resources without assistance may have the desired result of curing him of the desire to leave it.

Report comes from Conneaut, Ohio, of the sudden death of a woman at the age of 105, who had never been sick a day in her life.  The report is lacking in failing to state whether she had been a user of tobacco or not.

     Touchdowns - Poad 5, Deveney 3, Fairbairn 3.  Referee - Phelps, Ashtabula.  Linesman - Stone, Conneaut.

BRIDGE IS BAR TO ANNEXING SUBURB - Last Toll Structure in Ohio Balks Conneaut in Absorbing E. Conneaut.
Special to The Plain Dealer
     CONNEAUT, Nov. 25, - "When you own that bridge, tell us.  Then we will talk business with you."
     These words spoken by a committee of residents of East Conneaut ahs not been able to annex East Conneaut.
     The spot-- the barrier between Conneaut and East Conneaut - is the only toll bridge in the state of Ohio and one of the very few in the United States.
     Known as the high level bridge, teh viaduct spans Conneaut creek at a height of nearly 100 feet with a length of over _00 feet and connects East Conneaut with Conneaut.
     A short time ago city council passed an ordinance to annex to the city East Conneaut, which is a rapidly growing suburb of nearly 1,000 inhabitants.  But the people of that section put up strenuous protests.
     At the present time they have city lights, city water, pavements and all the other conveniences, but they have to pay their cent each time they cross the bridge.  As most of them work on this side of the creek it means a lot of money to them in a year.
     The bridge was built by Girard, Pa., capitalists about fifteen years ago, in order to allow the Cleveland & Erie Electric line to enter this city.  When the road was reorganized several years ago, the company that owned the bridge took it over, and the street car company now pays toll.
     The bridge takes in considerable amount of revenue every day, just how much officials refuse to state.  But when the number of people that use for which a toll of from 5 to 10 cents each, is taken into consideration, it is evident it is a good money maker.
     Two yeas ago the Conneaut Chamber of Commerce and the county commissioners tried to get the county to buy the bridge, but the county would only pay $80,000; while the owners wanted almost double that.  At that time the bridge could have been built new for what the county was willing to give, but at the present time, with the increase in costs, it would be impossible to build a new bridge at that price.
     Then the question of a site looms up; there is no other good place. The bridge is the key to the whole situation.
     East Conneaut residents want to come into city, but will not as long as they have to pay one cent every time they cross from one side to the other.  The city wants them to come in and help it grow, but can't afford to bond itself to buy the bridge.  The county, would like to eliminate the toll part of it, but can't find enough money.
     The only person who is really pleased about it at all is William Hanlon, Civil War veteran, who collects the fee at the little station at the west end of the bridge.  And no one gets by him either.  But he is not worrying, for he lives in East Conneaut, and it costs him nothing to go and come.

Conneauta Victim Ran Away to Join Guard.
Special to the Plain Dealer
     CONNEAUT, Feb. 9 - Because Charles Eaton, 20, ran away from his home and joined Company L., Fifth regiment, O. N. G., a Conneaut faily is in norning tonight.
     Private Eaton was one of the Ohio soldiers killed in the accident at El Paso today.
     Charles, the youngest son, joined the army when the call first came, leaving his home in Albion, near here, and enlisting.  His parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Eaton, Jefferson street, Conneaut, who moved here after he had enlisted, were ever watchful for news from him.
     But Mrs. Eaton for several days had been apprehensive that some injury would befall him and when news of his death was told her tonight, she was overcome by the shock.  She is in a serious condition.
     The first accident to members of Company L east a gloom over the city tonight.
     Daniel Roy, one of the injured, left a good position in Detroit and hastened to rejoin the company here when the call came.
     Floyd Rugar was a sailor before he enlisted in the guard.  Daniel L. Toomey and Grant Rood came from Girdard, Pa., east of here.
     Henry Armstrong is from Conneaut, but Verne Griffs and Ralph Morgan, members of the Conneaut company, live in Albion, Pa., and Ashtabula.
     Eaton leaves, besides his parents, three brothers and three sisters.
     The injured soldiers range in age from 20 to 24.
CRASH VICTIMS:
DEAD:
Karl EISENHART, sergeant Co. K, 2345 Belleville avenue, Cleveland
Charles EATON, private, Co. L., Conneaut

INJURED:
Rudolph J. SCHMIDT, private, Co. K, 7003 Kurtz court S. E., reported dying.
Dan. L. TOOMEY, private Co. L., Conneaut, reported dying.
Audley J. ROEHL, private, Co. K, 10002 Columbia avenue N. E. Cleveland, shoulder crushed and ear torn off.
Hiram J. CLARK, PRIVATE, Co. K, 1665 E. 65th street, Cleveland, head lacerated and teeth knocked out.
Daniel DINGWELL, private Co. K, Cleveland, foot broken.
Dan RAY, private, Co. L, Conneaut, bruised on head and body.
Floyd RUGAR, private, Co. L, Conneaut, bruised on head and body.
Grant ROOD, PRIVATE,  Co. L, Conneaut, bruised on head and body.
Edward Walsh, private, Co. K, 18635 Lauderdale avenue, Lakewood, shoulder dislocated and arm bruised.
John WITOWSKI, private, Co. K, 2909 E. 75th street, Cleveland, arm wrenched.
Eugene GRIMM, private, Co. K, Euclid Village, O., foot sprained.
Edward LUCK, private, Co. K, 3625 E. 65th street, Cleveland, arm, shoulder and leg bruised.
Henry ARMSTRONG, private Co. L, Conneaut, O., hand lacerated and leg wrenched.
Verne GRIFFIS, private, Co. L, Conneaut, O., leg wrenched, cuts on head and arms.
Ralph MORGAN, private, Co. L., Conneaut, O., arm fractured, back wrenched.
Michael LASHER, private, Co. L, Girard, Pa., bruised leg.
Carl FISHER, private, East Springfield, Pa., ankle sprained and body bruised.
Floyd FULKERSON, private Co. A, Berea, O., hip sprained.

CONESTOGA TO CONNEAUT.
     TOW HARBORS. July 10 - The steamer Conestoga left this morning for Conneaut, Ohio with a cargo of plank, timber and piling from the old dismantled ore dock.  The timber will be sued for erecting an ore trestle at Conneaut.

(Sharon's Note:  This is funny)
A CHIROPRACOR (whatever that is), of Conneaut, Ohio, advertises, "Eye and Ear Glasses Fitted."  We are foolish about keeping up with the styles, but if the 1918 rules require us to wear specs on our ears, that's were we renig.  There ain't no sense in it.

Conneaut Baker Loses License.
WASHINGTON, April 12 - The food administration today revoked the license of Albert B. Bauss, a baker of Conneaut, Ohio, charged that during the month of March he used only five per cent, substitutes in his bread instead of the required twenty per cent.  He has been notified that his license will be renewed April 20 if he proves himself willing to comply with the regulations.

FORMER BIG LEAGUER CAUGHT HAULING BOOZE
CONNEAUT, Ohio, Nov. 15 - Frank Delahenty, former major league baseball player and former member of the Ohio legislature was arrested here late today on charges of transporting intoxicating liquor.  When arrested he was driving a motor truck containing 16 half/barrels of beer, according to the officers.
     Police say Delahenty confessed to having made regular trips between Erie and Conneaut for several months.
     Delahenty resigned as a member of the legislature from Cleveland in 1919 after pleading guilty to a charge of accepting a bribe in connection with legislation pending.

     Conneaut marked the opening of its new viaduct yesterday with a pageant, a part of which is seen in the above picture, waiting on the structure for word to proceed toward the west approach into the city.
     In the lower photograph is seen an old prairie schooner, drawn by two yoke of oxen, which appeared in the pageant depicting the Western Reserve's transportation development since the days of the red man.

CONNEAUT BRIDGE OPENS TO 30,000 - Visitors From Three States Watch Dedication of $516,000 Viaduct.
      BY J. K. SCHMIDT. - Staff Correspondent.

CONNEAUT, O., July 18 - A crowd estimated at 30,000 people gathered at the west approach to the new $516,000 viaduct over Conneaut creek here this afternoon to witness the formal dedication of the magnificent 1,317-foot concrete span on the main Buffalo-Cleveland-Chicago highway.
     Conneaut, gay with flags and bunting, marked the bridge's opening with a mile-long pageant depicting the history of transportation development in the Western Reserve from the days of the Indian.
     This city of 12,000 made the occasion a holiday and closed all places of business during the dedicatory ceremonies.  Automobiles bearing Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York licenses filled every street.

Cyrus Locher Speaks.

     While Cyrus Locher of Cleveland, state director of commerce, was conveying the official regrets of Gov. A. V. Donahey - detained at his office because of the Lorain relief work - Director Locher's remarks were punctuated by the explosion of bombs dropped by an airplane pilot.
     As D. A. Boulay of Toledo, state director of highways, was accepting the structure from E. L. Wilcox, secretary-treasurer of the Pitt Construction Co., Pittsburgh, the contracting firm, Conneaut's name was being written by the airman in huge letters of blue smoke overhead.
     Upon being tendered the viaduct by Director Boulay, A. F. Gordon of Washington, D. C., senior bridge engineer of the federal bureau of public roads, accepted it on behalf of the government, and declared he believed the $200,000 in federal aid expended on the project ahd been well spent.
     "There has been no stinting of cement on that structure," asserted J. R. Burkey, engineer in charge of the construction of the viaduct. "It is all that the best of materials and the best of workmanship can produce."

Says Co-Operation Built it.

     "Co-operation built this bridge," declared Director Locher.  "The governor has asked me to say that the people of this city and county and of Ohio as a whole are to be congratulated upon the completion of this monument to our progress.
     "You taxpayers are to be congratulated on this investment, which will pay increasingly large returns in service as the years go by."
     Thad H. Brown, secretary of state, stressed the importance of highway maintenance and repair and said that so far in 1924, a total of 1,2000,00 motor vehicles had been licensed in Ohio, bringing into the highway maintenance fund of the state and into the funds of taxing units close to $11,000,000.
     "Ohio is receiving $5,000,000 in federal aid of the $50,000,000 appropriated" Vernon M. Pierce of Washington, D. C., chief of the bureau of public roads, declared, adding that since the passage of the federal road act in 1916, $452,000,000 has been apportioned among the states in federal highway aid.
     This state's intercounty highway system, now half completed, will be entirely improved within the next five years, Director Boulay asserted.
     "The people of Cleveland congratulate Conneaut's enterprising citizenry on the completion of the improvement," said City Manager W. R. Hopkins of Cleveland, who pointed out that Moses Cleaveland, founder of the Western Reserve's metropolis, established his headquarters on the site of Conneaut eighteen days before his party anchored at the mouth of the Cuyahoga.

Many Ties Bind Two Cities: 

     "Cleveland and Conneaut are bound by many ties of sentiment, many of them based upon incidents of their early history," he said.
     R. R. Richardson, general superintendent of the Conneaut docks of the Pittsburgh Steamship Co., as master of ceremonies also called upon Charles, Sargent of Jefferson, O., prosecuting attorney of Ashtabula county, who paid tribute to present and former county officials for their zeal and energy in carrying the project through.
     Other speakers were Congressman John G. Cooper, of Youngstown; G. F. Schlesinger, chief engineer of the state highway department; A. W. Zesinger, chief engineer of bridges of Ohio; G. R. Logue of Conneaut former state bridge engineer, and Wendell P. Brown of Cleveland, and viaduct's designing engineer.

Woman, 90, Christens Bridge.

     After the speaking came the christening of the structure by Mrs. Ella Chiddester, 90, said to be the city's oldest woman resident.  Water from Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland and Conneaut was poured into a large glass jug and swung from one of the viaduct's pylons.  The jug was an unusually durable one and Mrs. Chiddester threw it against the concrete pylon three times before the glass was shattered.
     Then came the pageant over the bridge, led by William Luce, 89, of Conneaut, declared by his fellow townsmen to be the last surviving scout who served under Gen. Custer in his Indian campaigns.
     Behind the Conneaut Finnish band, on ponies rode a score of men dressed as Indian braves, arrayed in feathers and war paint.  They were followed by a number of warriors afoot, no less vividly decorated, and accompanied by squaws and children, who apparently had vied successfully in the art of warpaint make-up.
     A corps of young men, wool-whiskered and bearded to represent pioneers, was followed by floats representing Washington surveyors in costume, Moses Cleaveland's landing party and many others.  A four-ox team, a reputed original prairie schooner placarded "Crossed Great Divide in 660 Days" and original coaches in which Gen. La Fayette and King Edward VIII as the Prince of Wales rode while visiting in this country, were in the procession.
     Conneaut citizens rubbed their eyes to see the old Central house bus of many years ago in the line.  In the bicycle division were a half dozen high-wheelers and two tandems.  An Albion, Pa., band and several fife and drum corps were interspersed among quaint automobiles of ancient vintage and smart motor equipages of the modern day.
     The production of the pageant, said to have been the most pretentious in the history of northeastern Ohio, was in charge of R. E. Handertmark,an instructor of Conneaut High School.

Displaces Last Toll Bridge.

     The new viaduct, as several speakers pointed out, displaces the last toll bridge within the state and eliminates two of the most difficult hills on the Chicago-Buffalo highway.  Of reinforced concrete, the structure has seven main arch spans and six small approach spans.  It contains 12,500 cubic yards of concrete and 1,100,000 pounds of steel.
     The total weight is put at 30,000 tons.  The width between the curbs is 32 feet and the height from water to sidewalk is 85 feet.

For pictures, taken by Sharon Wick, of the bridge before its demolition and replacement, click here http://www.conneautohio.us/hi_level_bridge.htm
These pictures were taken to preserve the beauty of the structure.
For more pictures, click here http://www.conneautohio.us/oldphotos_bridges.htm
 

Golf Pro Killed.
CONNEAUT, Ohio, Jan. 1 (AP)
Douglas Orn, 25, golf professional at the Lake Shore Club at Ashtabula, was killed Sunday when the car in which he was a passenger collided with a truck driven by Leo Baltus of Howell, Mich.

Handy Lake Serves in Dousing Human Torch
CONNEAUT, Ohio, Nov. 26 (AP)
- The proximity of a small pond probably saved the life of Stephen Reydak, 18.
     Working with an acetylene torch on an old automobile in a scrap yard he was showered with flaming fuel when the automobile's gasoline tank exploded.
     His clothing aflame, he leaped into the pond.  At Conneaut Hospital he was treated for burns about the thighs.

12 KILLED, 20 INJURED IN PILE-UP OF 3 TRAINS
List of Fatalities Expected to Grow.
     CONNEAUT, Ohio, March 28 (Saturday) (UP) - Two new York Central passenger trains and a freight train piled up in a three-way collision Friday night, and Ohio State Police counted twelve dead and at least twenty injured.
     The wreck occurred about 10:30 p.m. Ohio time, when a load of heave steel casings slipped off a westbound freight into the path of the "Southwest Limited," speeding from St. Louis, Mo. to New York.
     Sgt. John Gosling of the Ohio State Patrol said the 30-foot casings derailed both the freight and the "Limited," one of the fastest passenger trains on its line.
     The "Chicago Special," on route from Buffalo, N.Y., to Chicago, Ill., then smashed into the wreckage, Gosling said.
     The three trains piled up about two and a half miles east of here, scattering wrecked care near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.
     The NYC office in Cleveland, Ohio, was sending a relief train of nine cars loaded with a Red Cross disaster unit carrying plasma.
     The NYC said a 15-ambulance caravan was on route from Erie, Pa.
     The accident happened on what is known as "State Line Curve" near the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania.  The wreck was a quarter mile from the nearest road and the injured had to be carried out to ambulances waiting on the road.
     It's raining like hell out there," a NYC spokesman said.
     Train No. 5 was made up of eleven cars and the NYC said all but the last car was derailed.  The Southwest Limited was made up of twelve cars and the first nine were derailed.
     The spokesman said it was "believed" that only the engines tipped over.
     All four tracks of the NYC were blocked and the road was rerouting other trains on Nickel Plate trackage nearby.
     Hospitals throughout the area were alerted for a "large number" of casualties.  Extra doctors were called in.  An emergency relief train was reported to have left Erie for the scene.
     Police said the number of fatalities possibly would rise as workers at the scene searched through the wreckage.
     Conneaut Police Chief J. A. Pounds said "A good many persons have been injured" in the wreck.  Railroad cars were scattered all along the border.
     The New York Central said an estimated 127 persons were aboard the Southwest Limited when it left St. Louis.
     Dr. George Stoney, at Hamot Hospital in Erie, said he heard reports from "railroadmen" not at the scene that the fatalities were estimated at from twelve to twenty-two."
     The wreck occurred just along U. S. Highway 20, the main artery between Columbus, Ohio and Buffalo.  The only access to the scene was a dirt road leading one mile from the highway.
     Some fifteen to twenty ambulances were reported at the scene, along with twelve police cars, including all of Ashtabula County's auxiliary unites, plus sheriff's cars and Pennsylvania patrolmen.
     The injured were being taken to the Ashtabula General hospital, to Brown Hospital at Conneaut and to the Hamot Hospital at Erie.
     Because of road conditions it was difficult for ambulances to reach the scene and they took a long time brining out the injured to hospitals.
     Stoney said he understood there were plenty of doctors available at the scene.